eng URI http://hdl.handle.net/10795/3475 town planning climate simulation The role of urban green areas in the microclimatic conditions of cities, during summer, is investigated in this paper through monitoring campaigns carried out at the National garden, at the city centre of Athens. Two types of investigations were carried out: i) a microscopic one that investigated the thermal conditions inside the Garden and the immediate surrounding urban area and ii) a macroscopic one that compared the temperature profile of the Garden with that of the greater city centre area. It was concluded that in microscopic level, the temperature profile inside the National Garden and the immediate surrounding urban area did not showed a clear evidence of the influence of the Garden and it was dependent on the characteristics of each location. In a macroscopic scale, the Garden was found cooler than the other monitored urban locations and temperature differences were mainly greater during the night, especially in streets with high building height to street width (H/W) ratio and low traffic, while in streets with high anthropogenic heat during the day, the biggest temperature differences were recorded during the day. 18 pp. LOMv1.0 creator LOMv1.0subject matter expert LOMv1.0 publisher LOMv1.0 Project Final Beneficiary LOMv1.0 Project Executing Organisation 2008 Digital Library of the Operational Programme "Education and Lifelong Learning" abstract types Text Urban green areas Microclimate Heat island Monitoring 1141124 application/pdf http://repository.edulll.gr/edulll/bitstream/10795/3475/2/3475_Urban_green-National%20Garden.pdf URI http://hdl.handle.net/10795/3475 LOMv1.0creator 2016-05-30T07:36:19Z LOMv1.0validator 2016-05-30T07:36:19Z LOMv1.0 gre no no Copyright EYD-EPEDBM (Operational Programme "Education and Lifelong Learning")